Mus Zoo Koj by Sua Yaj

“He said he wants to replace us with Asian coaches,” Grover said, ”because he wants more Hmong players on the team.”

Two women who stole more than $250,000 out of a couple's Palo Alto credit union account were sentenced Tuesday, Feb. 14, in Santa Clara County Superior Court, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday.

Following a decision by the Vietnamese courts to imprison eight members of the Hmong community, human rights organisations have issued a joint statement, which condemns the move and calls on the Vietnamese government to uphold the human rights of its ethnic minorities.

An ethnic Hmong drug smuggling suspect on Friday was taken from Lampang to Royal Thai Police Headquarters in the capital for further investigation after being arrested on Thursday with two million methamphetamine pills in the northern province.

In a small building on Arcade Street in St. Paul, about a dozen Hmong veterans of the Vietnam War - all trained, paid and armed to fight for the United States by the Central Intelligence Agency - gather regularly to discuss upcoming public service events or festivities where their honor guard might be needed.

Hmong scholars from China, Thailand, Canada and the United States will be presenting at the conference. The ideas and studies presented at the conference will explore current conditions and future challenges that Hmong people face.

One poacher, a Thai Hmong, was given a five-year sentence while the second, a Vietnamese citizen, was given a four-year sentence, it said.

Dozens of people on Saturday gnawed on pigs' feet, raced around The 400 Block and tested their martial arts skills as part of an event aimed at raising money for Hmong Heritage Month.

When University of Alaska Anchorage anthropology student Margaret Brady was looking for a master's thesis topic, she turned to Alaska's Hmong community. Just how had these former full-time subsistence farmers from Laos adapted their gardening expertise to fit the realities of Alaska?